General conditions of Consignment General Freight Forwarder's conditions of Association of Logistics and Freight Forwarding of the Slovak republic in version with the changes approved by ALFF SR member convention on 12th May 2005 and 9th November 2011 Article 1 Subject - matter and purpose, scope of application 1.1 These General Conditions of the Freight Forwarders Association of Slovakia (hereinafter referred to as "GFFC ALFF SR") are issued on the basis of § 2, point 4 of the Statute of Association of the Freight Forwarders Association of Slovakia (hereinafter referred to as " FFAS") and § 273/. (1) and (2) of the Commercial Code of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "CoC"). Their purpose is to regulate in more detail and supplement provisions of § 601 - 609 of the CoC on the contract of freight forwarding. 1.2 The GFFC ALFF SR shall apply to commercial relations between the customers and freight forwarders in the field of national and international freight forwarding, provided they are in-corporated in the contract of freight forwarding. Those parts of the GFFC ALFF SR which, according to their nature, relate only to international freight forwarding, shall not be applicable to national freight forwarding. 1.3 The differing provisions of the contract of freight forwarding shall have priority over the wording of the GFFC ALFF SR. The provisions of the GFFC ALFF SR shall have priority over the provisions of the CoC and the Civil Code (hereinafter referred to as " CiC "), provided they are not at variance with their mandatory rules or contrary to other rules of imperative law. 1.4 The Slovak version of the GFFC ALFF SR has priority over their English and German translations. 1.5 For the purposes of these GFFC ALFF SR - an entrepreneur is considered to be a freight forwarder if he or she fulfils the required legal qualifications for this profession as stated in the trade law. In operating this trade he undertakes in the contract of freight forwarding to procure for his customer the transport of goods in his own name but on the customer's account from a certain place to another certain place (§ 601/1 1 / 17
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